On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:27:05PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > NAK on lookup_hash(). If nothing else, you need either > lookup_one_len_unlocked() or its "we already know hash" variant (assuming it's > worth bothering with). That locking the parent is potentially a lot costlier > than recalculating the (default) hash function. Especially in -next, where > lookup_one_len_unlocked() will take the lock shared if it has to take it at > all, but the mainline one also has a good chance to avoid taking the lock. Can't use lookup_one_len_unlocked() because point of the fix is to lose the permission check. So how about this? | struct dentry *lookup_hash(const struct qstr *name, struct dentry *base) | { | struct dentry *ret; | | ret = lookup_dcache(name, base, 0); | if (!ret) | ret = lookup_slow(name, base, 0); | | return ret; | } Updated pull request: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-linus --- Miklos Szeredi (3): vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal vfs: export lookup_hash() to modules ovl: ignore permissions on underlying lookup --- fs/namei.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 4 +--- include/linux/namei.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html